CALL FOR PAPERS: Southwest Ranching
The Southwest Ranching Area of The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association is hosting its regional
conference
March 7-10, 2001
Sheraton Oldtown Hotel
Albuquerque, NM 87104 (505) 843-6300
Possible topics may include but are not limited to the following:
Water, ecology, conservation and other issues of contemporary SW
ranching/farming
Land tenure issues, taxes, and family
Role of vaquero in Southwestern ranching culture
Cross-cultural influences on Southwestern ranching
Contemporary Southwestern ranching
Rodeos, country clubs, and barbecues: rural "traditions" in the urban
Southwest
Southwestern ranching traditions
Southwestern ranching folklore
History of ranching in the Southwest or of a particular ranch
Women in ranching in the Southwest
Sense of place in Southwestern literature
Ranching culture in Southwestern literature
Histories, diaries, personal accounts of Southwestern ranching
Borders and other liminal spaces
Ranches, ranchettes, and politics
Race, racism, realism
Southwest ranching in film
Dude and other "exotic" ranches
The Blue and other important rivers in southwest ranch life
"IMUS" and other ranches for ill or "problem" children
Send 200-word abstract of your 20-minute paper or presentation before
December 1, 2000 to:
Email (preferred) in the body of the e-mail: tchumphrey@csupomona.edu
(Please: no attachments--thanks)
or snail mail to:
Dr. Theodore C. Humphrey
Professor of English
9858 Via Esperanza
Alta Loma, CA 91737
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